Reuben Lucius Goldberg

Reuben Lucius Goldberg was born in San Francisco in 1883. He
went to college after his dad insisted that he go to become an engineer.
After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, Rube
went to work as an engineer for the City of San Francisco Water and
Sewers Department. Rube kept drawing and after 6 months he
convinced his father to let him become an artist and soon had a job as
an office boy in the sports department of a San Francisco newspaper.
Rube turned in cartoons and drawings to his editor until he was
published. Once he had them published he soon moved to New York
and began to draw cartoons for the Evening Mail. Rube became a
founding member of the National Cartoonist Society, apolitical
cartoonist, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He was a beloved national
figure.
Rube Goldberg?s inventions showed difficult ways to achieve easy
results. His cartoons were symbols of someone?s capacity for using
maximum effort to accomplish some minimal results. Rube said there
are two ways to do things: the hard